High-level ab initio molecular-orbital calculations indicate that the only C2H4 2+ isomer likely to be observable in the gas phase is the perpendicular ethylene dication (1). Other C,H:+ isomers lie higher in energy with extremely small barriers for collapse to 1.
The preferred structure of C2H−2
✍ Scribed by Jayaraman Chandrasekhar; Richard A. Kahn; Paul von Ragué Schleyer
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 338 KB
- Volume
- 85
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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